SBC complicitous in Trump's Venality
Well the Southern Baptists remain struck mute far as I can tell about the venality of the Trump Administration. Beginning with a July 9 NPR Fresh Air interview on gerrymandering and the Census Question, to Trump's baiting of AOC's squad to the Fox News made for prime TV Immigration roundup to a spot conversation this morning on NPR 1a program featuring Vandy's Jonathan Metzl it's an avalanche of mendacity and venality which has Southern Baptist leadership overwhelmed and out to lunch..
I don't have time to do this avalanche justice and you're in the fog if you don't do the background reading.
But here are some things you can google, some transcripts you can read in addition to the Fresh Air program. BTW Fresh Air Gerrymander chat spotlights, brings new frame to Kris Kobach. For Kobach context with the SBC see my Dying of Whiteness blog a few posts back.
On Saturday NPR weekend edition afternoon hour had segment with a woman who covered Trump's Social Media summit
Theatlantic.com July 5 had a post on how Trump continues to bedazzle his fundamentalist base. That piece had bizarre quote by Eric Metaxas, a guru in his own right for the Truth for a New Generation conferences of a decade ago at FBC Spartanburg SC and just a few months ago featured lecturer at Historically Baptist affiliated Samford University in Birmingham Alabama.
The Sunday before July 4th Metaxas guest filled the pulpit of 2nd Baptist megachurch Houston Texas whose Ed Young was hardwired to Nixon's Southern Strategist during his days in Columbia South Carolina.
One thing my alma mater, Furman University can do in what may be a losing cause in Upstate SC, is have Derrick Harkins on campus this fall with Furman 65 grad Pat Anderson, now editor of the progressive Baptist quarterly Christian Ethics Today. Harkins is not only a disciple of likely the wisest professing Christian left in America, Marilynne Robinson, he also from his days as a pastor in the 90s in Dallas Texas understands the distinct Baptist legacies of George W. Truett and WA Criswell, something apparently the US Congressman for WNC, Mark Meadows, does not.
Truett was born in Hayesville, NC in 1867
So is there an LD Johnson, a Carlyle Marney left who has a wise public word before the South Carolina Presidential Primary?
I guess we will have to wait and see.
Here is a link to the witness and hope of Derrick Harkins
https://religionnews.com/2019/06/25/democrats-new-faith-outreach-director-launches-listening-sessions-with-religious-leaders/
Trump's social media recap
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/741485104/white-house-social-media-summit-recap
And scroll down a third of the way in the following link to see how squarely Eunie Smith--see DofWhiteness blog--friend Kobach fits in the Steve Bannon strategy for Trump's immigration politics
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739854998/rulings-on-gerrymandering-and-the-census-could-define-the-political-future
and the great, the magisterial to Trump, Eric Metaxas and all Their minions:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/07/18/which-way-city-hill/
I don't have time to do this avalanche justice and you're in the fog if you don't do the background reading.
But here are some things you can google, some transcripts you can read in addition to the Fresh Air program. BTW Fresh Air Gerrymander chat spotlights, brings new frame to Kris Kobach. For Kobach context with the SBC see my Dying of Whiteness blog a few posts back.
On Saturday NPR weekend edition afternoon hour had segment with a woman who covered Trump's Social Media summit
Theatlantic.com July 5 had a post on how Trump continues to bedazzle his fundamentalist base. That piece had bizarre quote by Eric Metaxas, a guru in his own right for the Truth for a New Generation conferences of a decade ago at FBC Spartanburg SC and just a few months ago featured lecturer at Historically Baptist affiliated Samford University in Birmingham Alabama.
The Sunday before July 4th Metaxas guest filled the pulpit of 2nd Baptist megachurch Houston Texas whose Ed Young was hardwired to Nixon's Southern Strategist during his days in Columbia South Carolina.
One thing my alma mater, Furman University can do in what may be a losing cause in Upstate SC, is have Derrick Harkins on campus this fall with Furman 65 grad Pat Anderson, now editor of the progressive Baptist quarterly Christian Ethics Today. Harkins is not only a disciple of likely the wisest professing Christian left in America, Marilynne Robinson, he also from his days as a pastor in the 90s in Dallas Texas understands the distinct Baptist legacies of George W. Truett and WA Criswell, something apparently the US Congressman for WNC, Mark Meadows, does not.
Truett was born in Hayesville, NC in 1867
So is there an LD Johnson, a Carlyle Marney left who has a wise public word before the South Carolina Presidential Primary?
I guess we will have to wait and see.
Here is a link to the witness and hope of Derrick Harkins
https://religionnews.com/2019/06/25/democrats-new-faith-outreach-director-launches-listening-sessions-with-religious-leaders/
Trump's social media recap
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/741485104/white-house-social-media-summit-recap
And scroll down a third of the way in the following link to see how squarely Eunie Smith--see DofWhiteness blog--friend Kobach fits in the Steve Bannon strategy for Trump's immigration politics
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739854998/rulings-on-gerrymandering-and-the-census-could-define-the-political-future
and the great, the magisterial to Trump, Eric Metaxas and all Their minions:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/07/18/which-way-city-hill/
posted by foxofbama | 3:06 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting. I believe that Evangelical Christian supporters of Trump, including some who happen to be Southern Baptist, have become owners of his corruption and criminal activity by virtue of their failure to respond to it.
But I think you should distinguish between Southern Baptists who are part of the deplorable brigade, and the Southern Baptist Convention. The convention itself hasn't been involved as an entity, though certainly it has leaders who are going over the falls with a smile on their face.
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